Glebar does more than build precision centerless grinders. We focus on process improvement and margin enhancement to maximize our customers' return on investment. Our modular platforms and customizable software gives us the versatility to design and deliver turnkey precision grinding solutions tailored to your specific application. We holistically review pre- and post-grinding processes including part handling, inspection, data acquisition and automation, to provide our customers the ability of doing more with less – all on a smaller footprint than the competition. Explore Glebar and see why we are Innovation Manufactured.™

Glebar is synonymous with medical and has been at the forefront of medical centerless grinding machine technology for over 40 years. Our machines can process medical guidewires, arthroscopic shavers, dental components, surgical tubing, catheter bodies, bone drills and more, Glebar has the experience and expertise to optimize any grinding process for the medical industry.

Application Capabilities

Carbide

In its basic form, carbide is a fine gray powder. When pressed it becomes approximately two times more rigid than steel, and is double the density of steel. It is used to produce parts such as PCD, drill blanks, gauge pins, tungsten rods and other industrial applications which require a material which possesses a superior resistance to wear.

Composite

A composite material is made from two or more constituent materials with significantly different physical or chemical properties that produce a material with characteristics different from the individual components. Composite properties are often preferred because they are stronger, lighter, or less expensive when compared to traditional materials. Industrial applications include check valves, fiber posts, fuse bodies, CT scan pellets and more.

Glass

Glass is a non-crystalline amorphous solid often transparent with widespread practical and technological usages. Glass will transmit, reflect and refract light; these qualities can be enhanced by cutting and polishing to make components such as rods and quartz crystal ingots and boules.

Plastic

Plastic is a material consisting of any of a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic compounds that are malleable and can be molded into solid objects. Plasticity is the general property of all materials that are able to irreversibly deform without breaking. Due to their relatively low cost, ease of manufacture, versatility, and imperviousness to water, plastics are used in an enormous and expanding range of products which include catheters bodies, surgical tubing, contact lens blanks and high-performance polyimid rods.

Rubber

Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds plus water. Alone or in combination with other materials it has a large stretch ratio and high resilience and is extremely waterproof. Rubber is used extensively in many applications and products, such as golf ball cores, printer rollers and O-rings.

Wood

Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees, and other woody plants. It is an organic material, a natural composite of cellulose fibers which are strong in tension embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression. Wood has been used for thousands of years and today is used for a wide variety of products and applications such as drumsticks, cedar balls and rods.